Boris Johnson has said he plans to make announcements on foreign travel “in the coming days” as summer holidaymakers hope bans on travel could lift.
The government is to review the ban in April and possibly allow trips from May 17. But those planning a summer break could get clarity sooner after Mr Johnson told the Downing Street press conference "we'll be able to say more we hope in a few days' time. I certainly hope to be saying some more by April 5.”
It came as he said the nation is "step by step, jab by jab" on the path to "reclaiming our freedoms" as he addressed the nation on the anniversary of lockdown from Downing Street.
He told the Downing Street briefing that "at the right moment" a permanent memorial to those who died from coronavirus will be built and the "whole period" will be commemorated.
Meanwhile AstraZeneca has defended its coronavirus vaccine data after US authorities claimed some results from the US-led trial may have used “outdated information”. The firm said figures released on Monday showing the jab was 79 per cent effective against coronavirus and 100 per cent effective against severe disease was stood up in all of the data it has looked at.
